I was one of those kids who broke crayons a lot trying to blend colors. (What? You have to shade on the first layers and then press really hard on the last to do it right! The wax does the rest of the work for you.)
When I got into watercolors as a young adult, I joked that I used watercolors like markers, and blue painter’s tape like there was no tomorrow.
at Milliways with a pen 